Post Midlife Musings on the Purpose of the Past

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”   -Henry Ford   Hard to argue with, isn’t it? I think so, so I stopped trying. But not after decades of doing what I had always done, which was work for other people, at the place of their choosing, when

Death of a Small Town

   Ben stands in the middle of his family’s garage and travels back in time, unstuck, to the moment of his first recollection… He’s three years old, playing with sandbox toys stored for winter.  They’re stowed in a big closet with sliding wooden doors that are too heavy for him to open by himself.  But

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